Who is Nick Scoggin?

He is on a long-range reconnaissance patrol through the heart of the jungle of human longing. He is the artist who burns his works in the dark of the moon and talks to the fire. He will die alone, destitute, and insane in the back room of a flophouse brothel in Winnemucca, Nevada. He can, in a language you understand only as a child, answer the question you are truly asking...